Charlie:
Michael in Pearland says, “Like you, I take care of my mother’s house.”
Tom:
Like me!
Charlie:
Yeah, maybe you guys could team up.
Tom:
No, I got one house, it’s enough – thank you.
Charlie:
You could get a trip to Corpus out of the deal now. No? Okay. Anyway, he noticed water dripping the other day out from under a mirror, he took it off, found mold in the back and condensate. He tracked it down to a cracked T on the tub, where the water comes out, and he says, but he thinks it’ll be easier to move the tub and fix it than come in through the other side, because he’d have to go through the mill work, and that’d be an enormous mess. Your thoughts?
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Tom:
To remove a tub, especially this house built around the 60s, because mothers’ homes are always built in the 60s, you know that, right?
Charlie:
(Laughs) yeah, that’s true.
Tom:
My mother’s home’s actually 1972. But they have a mud flow, and you have to remove all the tile off the walls, or at least around the tub. Then it’s the floor tile is going to get hurt too, so it can be very expensive to move the tub. It’s usually not an option. Going through the mill work is nothing but wood and sheet rock at the most, and that can be replaced, matched and painted much easier than ever trying to remove the tub, putting it back, and putting it back in its original condition, which would be next to impossible.